I don’t remember how I found this article or when. I’m guessing someone shared a link somewhere and it was in the past five or six years. Rearing Honorable White Children was written in October 2001, four and a half years before I would start blogging and five years before I became a parent.
When I read it the first time, I remember feeling like I was reading some kind of written contraband. It wasn’t exactly the kind of article you would share with your mainstream family and friends.
Now I wonder if every White parent had read it in 2001 and taken it seriously, where we might be as a country.
As you read the article, think about how you would have read it in 2001. How you probably would have reacted to it in that time and place with the mindset you had at that time. Maybe it wouldn’t have felt like contraband to you. But I think most White Americans, especially conservative and Christian White Americans, would have called it racist and anyone who shared it a racist.
At the same time, reflect on how prescient this article was in so many ways.
What links these parents is a conviction that they are bringing up their children in hostile territory. As they see it, their kind has been hammered relentlessly in the culture wars waged against whites in this country for decades. Their heritage — Western history and traditions — has been denigrated, their race linked to oppression and racism, and their racial consciousness, pride, and commitment demonized. The shallowness and egoism of modern life run counter to their values of dignity, discipline, and responsibility.
Full article: Rearing Honorable White Children
